Personal Growth Quotes

"The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them they change and everyone looks up to them." "Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage." "There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest." "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure." "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?" "Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself." "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get." "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself." "The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." "He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good." "You cannot open a book without learning something." "The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has." "The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development." "To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness." "There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again." "Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder." "Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion." "Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth." "Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death." "There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?"